@atpfm Anecdata: I’m team @siracusa with the Core2 Duo. I’d wanted my first Mac for a couple years, waited for the Intel machines to come out, and purposefully skipped the first Intel MBP, getting the second one with a Core2 chip.

I remember it being a rumour almost immediately as the first machine came out, and to my mind a better (64bit) instruction set seemed more future proof.

Aside: it also had 802.11g only, with a $1.99 (?) update to get 802.11n eventually… (Sarbanes-Oxley?)